'Rick and Morty' fans turn on McDonald's on Twitter after sauce debacle

An episode of "Rick and Morty" ended with a plea for McDonald's to bring back its Szechuan McNugget sauce, and the company obliged, but many locations only stocked a few dozen packets of sauce, fans complained on Twitter. Click through the gallery for outraged reactions.

An episode of "Rick and Morty" ended with a plea for McDonald's to bring back its Szechuan McNugget sauce, and the company obliged, but many locations only stocked a few dozen packets of sauce, fans complained

An episode of "Rick and Morty" ended with a plea for McDonald's to bring back its Szechuan McNugget sauce, and the company obliged, but many locations only stocked a few dozen packets of sauce, fans complained on Twitter. Click through the gallery for outraged reactions.

An episode of "Rick and Morty" ended with a plea for McDonald's to bring back its Szechuan McNugget sauce, and the company obliged, but many locations only stocked a few dozen packets of sauce, fans complained

'Rick and Morty' fans turn on McDonald's on Twitter after sauce debacle

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When McDonald's announced it was bringing back the Szechuan McNugget dipping sauce after the sauce was hyped in an episode of "Rick and Morty" on Adult Swim, fans rejoiced.

But on Saturday, the day of the release, joy quickly turned to despair when those same fans discovered that stores had received extremely limited quantities of the sauce.

The sauce originally had a limited run in the late 1990s when it was released as a promotion for the movie "Mulan," and fans rallied for its return when Rick, the eccentric genius scientist from "Rick and Morty," sang its praises in the season premiere of the show back in April.

The sauce was said to be available at McDonald's locations at 1998 Shattuck Ave. in Berkeley, 1691 Monument Blvd. in Concord, 2191 Monterey Road in San Jose, and 255 Winston Drive in San Francisco starting at 2 p.m Saturday. A longer list of stores gave away "Rick and Morty" promotional posters and stickers, but no sauce, according to McDonald's.

VIDEO: Long line Saturday at the McDonald's in Berkeley

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McDonald's had warned that the release would be limited —"And when we say limited, we mean really, really limited," the company wrote in an announcement — but many sauce enthusiasts were not prepared for the reality that awaited them.